Week 5- Hospital to Home Flashcards
What is perception?
Processing that transforms sensory information into meaningful representations
What is agnosia?
Failure of recognition of:
Visual agnosia
Auditory agnosia
Astereognosis
What is visual spatial neglect?
Failure to report, respond or orient to a stimuli in the space CL to the site of the brain lesion
Visual spatial neglect is most common with damage to what area of the brain?
Right parietal lesions
What is apraxia?
Disorder of movement not characterised by problems with tone/ coordination but by an inability to combine simple movements into a sequence to achieve a goal
What are two types of apraxia?
Ideomotor - disorder in planning, timing and spatial organisation of purposeful movement. Can imitate movements but can’t do to command.
Ideational - disorder in the performance of purposeful movement due to loss of concept of movement. Unable to copy movement. May perform isolated movements out of context.
What are three perceptive functions of each hemisphere?
Right - processing of global information, recognition of objects and body parts, spatial relationships
Left - Processing of focal information, sequencing of action, literal analysis of emotional input
What is cognition?
All the mental processes that allow us to recognise, learn, remember and attend to changing information in the environment
What are three types of amnesia?
Post traumatic
Retrograde
Anterograde - inability to incorporate new info
Name 3 outcome measures for cognition
MoCa - Montreal Cognitive Ax
MMSE - Mini Mental State Examination
ACE-R - Addenbrookes’ Cognitive Examination Revised
